
18 | CHAPTER 2 Introduction to Information, Information Science, and Information Systems
Network (NHIN), Next-Generation Internet (NGI), Internet2, and
iHealth record. There are also health information exchange (HIE) sys-
tems, such as Connecting for Health, the eHealth initiative, the Federal
Health Information Exchange (FHIE), the Indiana Health Infor-
mation Exchange (IHIE), the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
(MHDC), the New England Health EDI Network (NEHEN), the State
of New Mexico Rapid Syndromic Validation Project (RSVP), the
Southeast Michigan e-Prescribing Initiative, and the Tennessee
Volunteer eHealth Initiative (Goldstein, Groen, ...